Is there a general-purpose brick-snapping algorithm published anywhere?

I have some ideas around computer-generated LEGO models, and things would be much easier if I didn't have to figure it out myself.

Chris

Complete with printed tiles

feedback welcome.

Chris

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Known errors: None
Done with LDCad 1.5alpha4.

My attention was drawn to this topic by a post by Sylvain Sauvage on LeoCAD list:

I started cleaning up some old tutorials on the wiki, but the images aren't showing up. You can see here that a lot of images are affected:

http://wiki.ldraw.org/index.php?title=Sp...&offset=50

Any change we can get this fixed?

Can this part connect flush on a baseplate? I am looking at the bottom and there does not seem to be room for every stud. Compare to part 3943a.dat which does connect well on a baseplate (I think).

MLCad Arrow when import model to LICreator https://www.dropbox.com/s/0tkc3m7tajo4s0q/LIC.jpg?dl=0

What you can do with LICreator

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The question is how do IT this work correctly ?!!.

Go to https://github.com/Jeremy1980/licreator and try new release. This compilation is under Python v2.7.8 and newest PyOpenGL libraries.

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Under what circumstances and to what extent should the inside of a part be modelled?
The reason I'm asking this is that I'm working on the PF Track points and their 9V counterparts have the entire inside detailed in the part; the bottom cover is a complete part and everything below it is modelled too.
Personally I don't see any use or need for these details. That bottom cover is not intended to be removed and I'd say 99% of owners never have and never will.
In comparison, for example the PF motors don't have their insides modelled; the shell components are only drawn as far as they can be seen without disassembling the part.
Are there rules or guidelines about this? My intention would be to build the track points like the PF motors; only model what you can see. This would also affect the Monorail track switch that's being discussed elsewhere.

Is there a tool that will print a table or list of part filenames and part descriptions? Better yet if it's just a subset of parts that i can specify. Thanks.